[Users] Einstein Toolkit Meeting Reminder

[Erik Schnetter]

On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:40 , Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 13:43, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 22:10 , Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Please consider joining the weekly Einstein Toolkit phone call at
>>> 10 am US central time on Mondays. As usual, you can find instructions
>>> how to join on the following web site:
>>> 
>>> http://einsteintoolkit.org/community/support/
>>> 
>>> In short: the number is (+1) 225-578-4942 and the conference
>>>        id is 118682#.
>>> 
>>> This being the first meeting in 2015 we should take a step back and
>>> discuss what we want the ET to be one year from now, and how this can be
>>> achieved.
>>> 
>>> Of course, other topics are as always welcome.
>> 
>> I would like to discuss:
>> - having a type that is CCTK_INT8 by default on 64-bit platforms
>> - adding a new type CCTK_INT16
>> - merging the McLachlan rewrite branch

These are items for today, they are not goals for the year.

-erik

>> I may be late in calling in.
> 
> I would add the following potential goals for the next year:
> 
> 	- Improving timelevel handling and making Carpet more flexible wrt time prolongation orders etc (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/620)
> 
> 	- Dependency-based scheduling, to avoid errors and allow potential parallelisation
> 
> 	- Output of simulation metadata in a standardised form (i.e. avoiding the need to parse parameter files) (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1370)
> 
> 	- Get tickets under control (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1698)
> 		- We have a system for triaging tickets which seems to work (https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Tickets), and have applied it to the most recent tickets.  We need to apply it to the rest, and work out how to make sure that this is done in future.
> 
> 	- Make tests independent of number of processes, or run on the right number (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1075, https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1230).
> 		- With some care, we now have all the required features to make Carpet 1D output be independent of the number of processes, and I started converting some of the tests a few weeks ago.  This needs to be extended to all tests, and probably instructions added to the documentation for how to write a test such that it can be run on any number of processes.
> 
> --
> Ian Hinder
> http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin
> 

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